Juan Adolfo Fernández Saínz (born in 1947) is a Cuban journalist. Before his imprisonment, he was an independent journalist with the Patria news agency. Adolfo Fernández Sainz also contributed to foreign publications, particularly in Sweden.
He was correspondent of the Russian human rights news agency
Prima since 2001.
Adolfo Fernández Sainz was arrested and sentenced to 15 years in prison during the
Black Spring crackdown on dissidents in 2003.
In prison, he has protested through hunger strikes. A 2003 hunger strike demanded decent food and medicine for seriously ill prisoners.
Amnesty International
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says that it has more than ten million members a ...
has recognized him as a
prisoner of conscience
A prisoner of conscience (POC) is anyone imprisoned because of their race, sexual orientation, religion, or political views. The term also refers to those who have been imprisoned or persecuted for the nonviolent expression of their conscienti ...
.
The Freedom for Fernandez International Committee has demanded Adolfo Fernández Sainz to be released.
Adolfo Fernández Sainz was the prisoner of the month of the
English PEN
Founded in 1921, English PEN is one of the world's first non-governmental organisations and among the first international bodies advocating for human rights. English PEN was the founding centre of PEN International, a worldwide writers' associa ...
in March 2006.
Fernández Sainz was released from prison on 19 August 2010. The next day, he traveled to Spain to live there. His release from prison was based on direct negotiation between deputies of the Catholic Church and the Spanish government.
References
External links
Adolfo Fernández Saínz - English PEN
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1947 births
Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Cuba
Cuban journalists
Cuban male journalists
Cuban dissidents
Living people
Cuban prisoners and detainees
Cuban exiles
Cuban emigrants to Spain
Black Spring detainees